Time to haul out this old YouTube video on Nizam Ishmael's tricked up Corvette and WebSphere sMash . We clearly got carried away with our green screen theatrics, but catapulting his car into the air was not an option.

I enjoyed jumping off of things when I was younger. I jumped off of our house, practicing my tuck and roll. I jumped my bike off of things -- plywood ramps in particular. I jumped off of a galloping horse one time. OK, fell off. And there was a time when I really wanted to jump out of an airplane and skydive. The opportunity did not present itself and the desire has now passed. Falling ten stories in one of the Elevator of Doom rides at a big amusement park really was the beginning of the end of my desire to jump off of things. But seeing... [More]

Very cool story about a water-cooled IBM supercomputer at Swiss university ETH Zurich . It uses 40% less energy than air-cooling the same system, and the captured heat is used to heat the building. Amazing how retro-innovative we become when we start thinking of resources as gifts instead of entitlements. In my house, we've been separating items out for recycling pickup for years. They take glass and some types of plastic. And recently, at my wife's encouragement, we found a cardboard recycling drop-off by a neighborhood school and have since... [More]

Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski is founder and vice president of InferData , an IBM Business Partner that does training and consulting in advanced software and data technology. Vladimir talks about the importance of data modeling, how it works with agile development, and about what he will cover in next week's (May 13) developerWorks virtual tech briefing on best practices with data modeling. Register here. Listen (5:46) | Transcript Replay of tech briefing | Slide show | InfoSphere Data Architect Scott Laningham's My dW profile | dW Podcast RSS feed... [More]